Mountain View Voice 07.16.2010 - Section 1

Section 1 of the July 16.2010 edition of the Mountain View Voice

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Pot club operator says
he will run for city council
By Daniel DeBolt
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Megan Matsumoto, 19, right, and Danielle Ryu, 18, rehearse to the song “Fukashima Ondo” during
rehearsal for the Obon Festival, held this weekend at the Buddhist temple in Mountain View.
Big in Japan: Obon festival celebrates culture
By Emily Hamilton
T
he Mountain View Buddhist Temple is holding
their 58th annual Obon
Festival and Bazaar this weekend.
The festivities will take place on
Saturday, July 17, from 4 p.m. to 10
p.m. and on Sunday, July 18, from
12 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The annual mid-summer holiday honors those who have passed
away. A central part of the celebration is the dance. Four hundred
dancers will “Dance for Joy” in
the Bon Odori ritual dance in
appreciation of the deceased at 7
p.m. on Sunday.
In addition to the dancing,
guests at the festival will find a
variety of activities. There will
be an array of Japanese foods to
enjoy, including sushi, tempura
and udon, along with American treats like shaved ice. In the
temple’s cultural room, there will
be an exhibit of miniature Bonsai
trees, Ikebana flower arrange-
ments, Kimekomi dolls and other
traditional art. There will activities for children, including origami folding, hachi maki headband
stamping and Taiko drumming.
There will be professional Taiko performances at 6:30 p.m. on
Saturday and at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
There will also be performances
by the Obon Jazz Quartet and the
San Jose Chidori Band.
For more information and a
full schedule, visit www.
mvbuddhisttemple.org
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Moffett airfield up for grabs?
By Daniel DeBolt
C
ongresswoman Anna Eshoo
is concerned about the
potential for increased use
of the runway at Moffett Federal
Airfield as NASA considers getting
rid of “underutilized assets.”
While the owner of the for-
INSIDE
mer naval airfield, NASA Ames
Research Center, is largely mum
on the issue, Eshoo’s spokesperson
Ben Bradford confirmed that the
congresswoman has been talking
to NASA about the possibility that
the agency would relinquish control of the airfield. Bradford said
that Eshoo opposes such a move,
which some fear would increase air
traffic at Moffett Field — an issue
that’s been controversial in the past.
Eshoo was not available to comment on the issue further.
In an e-mail, NASA Ames
spokesperson Michael Mewhinney
See MOFFETT, page 10
GOINGS ON 20 | MARKETPLACE 21 | REAL ESTATE 25 | VIEWPOINT 13
e may have lost a battle
to sell medical marijuana in Mountain View,
but Matt Lucero says he’s been
inspired to run for City Council
this fall as a champion for the
“blue collar, lower-class residents
of Mountain View.”
“If they thought I was a problem from the other side of the
podium, wait until they see me
sitting next to them,” Lucero said
of the City Council.
While Lucero had yet to submit the necessary forms, he said
Monday that he was “absolutely”
going to run. In order to qualify
as a council candidate, he plans
to become a Mountain View resident by moving into an apartment on Castro Street “right
down the street form City Hall
so I can keep an eye on them,” he
laughed. He plans to rent out his
Campbell home to his daughter.
“It was not my idea,” Lucero
said Monday, saying his Mountain View customers pushed him
to do it. “Scores, if not hundreds
ask me to do this,” he said.
Lucero said he plans to use the
former location of his dispensary,
Buddy’s Cannabis Patient Collective, as campaign headquarters.
The operation moved from the
Bayshore Parkway location on
July 7 to Sunnyvale after a judge
upheld Mountain View’s temporary ban on pot clubs. Sunnyvale
has a similar ban.
Lucero said his desire to run
“has nothing to do with Buddy’s
Cannabis in Mountain View”
and that he would abstain from
related discussions and votes.
“I don’t need to sit on the
City Council to do the Buddy’s
thing.”
The theme of his campaign, he
said, is “throw the bums out.”
“I don’t like the way that
City Council treats its people,”
Lucero said, noting the way the
council decided to shut down
his dispensary even though not
one resident opposed the operation in City Council meetings.
“There is a strong dislike of the
City Council by blue collar,
lower class residents of Mountain
View.”
A Web site and position statements are in the works, but Lucero said he is still “getting up to
speed” on a lot of issues. Among
the complaints he’s gotten from
his customers include “misuse of
money, oppression and apathy”
on the part of the city and City
Council.
Lucero, a millionaire and former corporate attorney for large
tech companies, said he was not
yet sure about whether to commit
See LUCERO, page 8
No warm
welcome for
Buddy’s
POT CLUB FORCED
FROM MV COULD FACE
SAME FATE IN NEW
SUNNYVALE SPOT
By Daniel DeBolt
I
t appears that Sunnyvale’s
city government isn’t taking
too kindly to Buddy’s Cannabis Patient Collective after its
reopening there.
Buddy’s new location has
been open for less than a week
and the dispensary has already
been visited by Sunnyvale
police detectives who issued
two citations so far to the dispensary for violating SunnySee BUDDY’S, page 9
Photography by Frank Gaglione; Physician: George A. Fisher, Jr., MD, PhD; Patient: Gary Grandmaison
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